As a teenager, Willow met the Slayer, and became a close friend and fellow adventurer. Later, she became one of the most powerful witches on Earth, nearly destroying it before snapping back to sanity.
When Buffy first met Willow she could have been described as a sweet, self conscious and often nervous girl. She would exhibit low self esteem and sometimes she’d let people push her around. Willow plays a very important role in Buffy’s life. She, along with Xander, became the Slayer’s first friends when she arrived at Sunnydale and they have remained her best friends ever since. Also, during the course of their friendship Willow has come a long way from being a modest helper who did some research for Buffy and sometimes quite frankly just a nuisance (Buffy having to help her out of trouble constantly), to becoming a very powerful witch and thus a formidable ally. In early days Willow would prove useful aiding Giles digging through volumes of ancient lore in search for prophecies, information about demons, stories of vampires and many more useful knowledge that the Slayer could require at any given moment. Also sometimes her computer expertise was used, for instance, for hacking into government databases and such. Willow’s first contact with witchcraft came out of necessity. Angel had lost his soul and thus became Angelus a vicious murderous vampire so to stop him, Willow created a spell to curse the vampire again with a mortal soul. After that Willow began training in the dark arts and she had a natural talent for that, so soon she became a very powerful witch.Dark Willow
When Warren Mears attempted to kill Buffy by shooting her in her back garden, as he fleed after shooting her, he continued to shoot wildly and without aiming, and a stray bullet flew through Willow's bedroom window and hit Tara in the chest, killing her. Willow caught Tara as she fell, and when she looked up, her eyes glowed red. Willow quickly summons Osirus (previously contacted when Buffy was resurrected) in an attempt to bring Tara back, but he explains that because she died by natural human fault. Willow angers and super screams at the god, sending him away.
From the Magic Box, Willow makes her way to the hospital, where she demands that all the surgeons that are operating on Buffy leave. She carefully removes the from Buffy and heals her, and she, Buffy and Xander (who was there all along) head to the car, where she makes them drive her to Warren (Willow is able to track him via his sensing his essence/soul). When Willow claims that Xander isn't driving fast enough, she takes control of the car, and she drives it off the road and through to the side of another, all in a desert type area. Willow gets out and we are able to see a bus heading their way. WIllow takes control of the bus, making it drive on until she makes it come to a stand still in front of her. She opens the door and demands that Warren get out, which he does. She begins to strangle him, but his eye falls out and she discovers that he's a robot, which angers her because she thought she could feel his essence. Buffy and Xander try to reason with her, and she tells them that he killed Tara, but Buffy continues to plead, asking her not to kill because it'll change her, but Willow forces them backwards as she walks away. With Tara's blood-spattered shirt, Willow performs a spell in Tara's dorm room, which creates a map on the shirt that leads her to Warren.
Willow chases Warren through the woods. He sends various things to stop her, such as a flying box that explodes, but Willow freezes the explosion and shatters it, and a gel that surrounds her, but she burns through it rapidly. She chants a spells that causes vines to restrain Warren, and she finally catches him (she found him before, but she was messing with him then). He mocks and taunts him, and then begins to talk about how painful it is when someone gets shot, and she shows him what it's like: she tears a hole in him and then slowly pushes the bullet in. Buffy, Xander and Anya then arrive to see what's coming next: Willow mutters "Bored now." and gestures, flaying Warren from foot to head and then burning his remaining corpse (it is later revealed that he was summoned away by Amy Madison who brought him back to life).
Willow quickly escapes, now going after the other two members of the Trio, Jonathan and Andrew, who are currently in prison. Willow destroys the engine of Xander's car, so they're unable to follow, but they have plans... Willow quickly gets to the prison, and guards come out at her but she quickly disposes of them, and begins to take down the upper prison wall. When she's finished, she flies up, to find the cell empty, but Anya on the other side. Anya pleads with her to stop, but she quickly blasts her, and then screams, but in a super sonic manner. Knowing that Buffy and Xander has the two, Willow chases them. They think that Willow isn't trailing them, only to be rammed by a truck the next moment, Willow standing a top of it, magically driving it. Luckily for the four, Willow's power has been drained, and she runs out of power.
Willow then heads to Rack's apartment, where he taunts her. After a minute or two of the taunting, Willow forces her hand into his chest and drains his magical power. A few moments later, and Dawn enters the apartment to find Rack dead on the floor, and Dark Willow waiting for her, now with veins running over her face. Dark Willow begins to mock Dawn, saying that all she does is moan. Dark Willow is then about to turn her back into the Key (energy form), when Buffy bursts in. Dawn runs to Buffy, and Buffy begins to try and reason with Willow, telling her that life is worth living, but Dark Willow knows that she's lying. As they talk, Dark Willow teleports them to the Magic Box, where Xander, Anya, Jonathan and Andrew reside (Anya out of sight at the moment). Dark Willow then begins to fire magic at Jonathan and Andrew, but they are protected by some sort of field, revealed to be Anya chanting. She tries another few times, but is unable to breach the field. Dark Willow then casts a spell on herself, to enhance her strength aiming to pummel the two to death with her fists. Buffy jumps in her way to protect the two, but Dark Willow throws her aside. Dark Willow and Buffy then get into a fight, smashing each other, Xander taking the opportunity to escape with the two and Dawn, but Anya stays to keep chanting the spell to stop Dark Willow from harming Buffy with projectile magic. Dark Willow then discovers that Anya is chanting, and begins to strangle her, only to be stopped by Buffy, and the two battle some more, until Dark Willow throws her across the room, and begins to talk: "The Slayer thing really isn't about the violence. It's about the power. And there's no one in the world who has the power to stop me now." At that moment, Dark Willow is flung across the room by a flash of green light, revealed to be Giles, who states "I'd like to test that theory."
Dark Willow begins to mock Giles, and the two verbally fight. She attempts to stand, but Giles gestures, knocking her back down. She attempts to get up again, waving away Giles spell. He then throws a magical ring aroundher, that restricts her use of magic and movement. Giles and Buffy go downstairs to talk, and Dark Willow is left with Anya who's cleaning up. Dark Willow contacts Anya via telepathy, asking her to release her, but Anya refuses, and she tells Dark Willow that mind control doesn't work on her. But as Buffy and Giles talk downstairs, Dark Willow appears in the doorway, holding the unconscious Anya, and she and Giles begin to fight. Dark Willow flings several weapons at him, but he uses his magic to place a dummy in front of him, protecting himself. Dark Willow magically moves it aside, but Giles throws a magic blast at her, knocking her back through a wall. She gets back up and talks to Buffy and Giles, but then creates a fire ball, made to seek out Jonathan and Andrew and kill them, but this was a plot to get Buffy out of the way, which it does as she runs after the fire ball. She and Giles duel, but she gets the upper-hand and she pins him to the ceiling and then drops him to the floor, and then taunts him. She then takes his magics, but the power comes with amazing emotions, and she thinks that the world is depressed and that she tends to help everyone by destroying the Earth. She heads to the old temple of Satanic demon, who intended on destroying the Earth before by feeding the Earth's energy through the temple. She uses her powers to raise the temple from underground, so she can use it. Dark Willow also animates some corpses in the hole in which Buddy and Dawn are trapped in to distract them. Dark WIllow then begins to channel the energy of Earth through the temple, which trigger's severe tremors. But, the process is interupted by Xander, who stands in the way of the energy flow. Dark Willow threatens to kill him, but her keeps talking and she throws him aside. She starts the process again, but yet again Xander interrupts it. He continues talking, explaining that Willow is the only other person other than his parents that he's known all his life, and that he loves her. He walks closer, and her eyes begin to tear, and she runs at him, hitting him in the chest, but he hugs her and the two fall to their knees, Dark Willow know reverting to normal Willow, and she begins to cry.
Rehabilitation
After her breakdown, Willow is taken to EnglandAfter Sunnydale
After the destruction of Sunnydale Willow and Kennedy spent some time in Rio de Janero, Brazil. During this time she became a student of the powerful Saga Vasuki. Under her tutelage the relationship with the scooby-gang faded. Kennedy her girlfriend also died a mystical death but was later resurrected by Willow. Willow suddenly showed up at Buffy's Scotland base to fight off hordes or demons. She was kidnapped by Amy and the skinless Warren. While being lobotomized she/her mind took sanctuary in the psychic plane. Through mind and body connection Willow gave some of her magic to Buffy who was then able to break through and rescue Willow who had healed from the entire process in a matter of seconds. While in Tokyo she met and fought a fellow student of Saga Vasuki. While fighting she received a vision of the future. Vasuki told her not to look at the future for she would not like what she sees.
The Future
As of yet unknown means Willow is alive and young hundreds of years in the future. Willow is not allied with Harth Fray the ruler of vampires. After a long battle Buffy killed the evil Willow and returned to her own time.
Powers and Abilities
When the Buffy series first began, Willow possessed no supernatural powers. Willow used her smarts to aid the gang, being one of the smartest people in Sunnydale High, and her amazing technology skills, usually using them to hack into mainframes to retreive information to aid the gang. She also mainly helped Giles research through the libraries books. Because of her incredibly high level of intelligence too, after her computer teacher and Scooby Gang ally Jenny Calandar was murdered, Willow was even asked to take over her class(es).Willow first displayed an interest/nack in/for magic in the fourth episode of the show, where she aided Giles in creating a potion to detect a witch. She didn't display this interest until the next season, where she casts a spell to stop Angelus from entering Buffy's home once more (making it as if she had invited him in).
For the first two seasons of the show, Willow was an average human, and thus, had no powers of her own; however, her intelligence, computer skills, and snarkiness made her a major asset to the team. She aids Giles as he researches information to aid Buffy in overcoming various challenges. In Seasons Five and Six, she displays enough knowledge of robotics to repair and reprogram the Buffybot on several occasions. Willow aids in the preparation of magical materials, making her first potion to detect a witch in the episode "Witch" and performing the ritual to revoke Angelus' invitation to Buffy's house in "Passion", but does not seriously begin practicing magic until the death of Jenny Calendar, one of her teachers. She is asked to take over teaching the class because of her high aptitude, and one day comes across a floppy disk containing a spell that Jenny Calendar had successfully translated to English, which can restore a vampire's soul. Willow's initial interest in Wicca lies more in the spell-casting portion rather than the faith itself; she sees magic as a way of hacking the universe, and an extension of her computer hacking skills. This mentality may have been influenced by her relationship with Jenny, who identified herself as a "technopagan," and was connected to an online pagan network.
Willow's first major spell involves re-cursing Angel with a soul in the Season Two finale, a feat she repeats in the Angel episode "Orpheus". She learns to levitate a pencil early in the show's third season, and her powers continue to develop until, at the end of Season Four, she is casting powerful spells independently and with the help of Tara Maclay. Season Five finds her surpassing Tara, a more experienced witch, in skill and being able to draw enough power to fend off the hell-god Glory, learning how to cast elemental magicks such as fire and lightning.
In Season Six, Willow demonstrates the ability to bring Buffy back to life, leaving her drained but regaining her magic in a few hours. Her friend Amy Madison introduces her to a warlock, Rack, who gives her the ability to go longer and do more spells, which leads Willow further down the path to the dark side of magic. Eventually, after Tara dies, magic consumes Willow and she nearly destroys the world. It is at this time that Anya assumes Willow is now the most powerful Wicca in the Western Hemisphere. Willow is capable of imbuing herself with superhuman strength rivaling Buffy's, flying, absorbing life from others, teleportation, invulnerable, emitting high pitch screams that are jarmful to human ears, healing herself and others instantly at will, unleashing powerful energy blast, locating people and objects at a distance (even when theoretically protected from such spells), and exerting powerful levels of telekinesis and telepathic mind control. This mind control even extends to Anya, despite Anya's statement that vengeance demons are immune to mind controlling magicks.
Season Seven sees her willingness to use magic greatly diminished after the events of the Season Six finale. Willow spends time at a coven in England with Giles where she develops a better understanding of magic, balance, etc. At this point, she is so powerful her very feelings and thoughts can affect the world. Amy comments that other practitioners "work twice as hard to be half as good" as Willow. Despite this, Willow is largely prevented from accessing more than slight magic by the First Evil who attempts to corrupt her at each spell. Examples of the controlled usage of her power are her use of telekinesis to practice self-restraint, conjuring force fields extensive telepathic conversations, opening a portal, and exerting hypnotic control. In the Season Seven premiere, Willow receives an apparent precognitive vision of the Hellmouth, although this has only been shown once. Willow also comments that she now absorbs power from the things around her, one time unwillingly draining some of Anya's and Kennedy's life-force. At the end of Season Seven, Willow casts a spell that imbues all Potential Slayers on Earth with Slayer powers (formerly reserved for only one girl in every generation), temporarily turning Willow's eyes and hair crystal white in the process. Kennedy remarks on it by calling her "a goddess".
Season Eight shows that Willow's powers have greatly expanded since the television series. She can now fly by force of will and has regained control of her powers, and although her roots continue to go dark whenever she taps into more power, this doesn't faze her. She is able to project vast amounts of energy from her fingertips and cast aside powerful spells. Willow is able to teleport giant Dawn, apparently from Scotland to Tokyo, without visible strain. She is able to heal herself rapidly from extreme injuries, at least including partial lobotomy. She is also able to heal injuries in others. Amy characterizes her as a "big all-powerful earth-mother witch goddess". The Season Eight time travel storyline "Time of Your Life" depicts Dark Willow as alive and youthful hundreds of years into the future, although unable to create magic of much power.
| Super Name: | Willow |
| Real Name: | Willow Danielle Rosenberg |
| Aliases: |
Willow Danielle Rosenberg Dark Willow Amazon Will |
| Publisher: | Dark Horse |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | # |
| Appears in: | 84 issues |
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